Bar Lolo: Happy hour hits and dinnertime misses.
Chris Onstad
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The Perfect Student Guide to… COOKING!
What follows are three delicious, easy recipes for broke kids with no gear, no money, and no time. Bacon Banh Mi Pickling daikon and carrot for a traditional banh mi, while simple, is usually enough to keep me from making these Vietnamese sandwiches; I took a cue from Sok Sab Bai’s Cambodian sandwich—the spitting image […]
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Purveyor Profile: Nicky USA
How His Meat Gets to Your Table
Where your delicious meat comes from.
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Hidden in Plain Sight
The Comforts of Home at Luce
The wonderful Luce has been hiding right beneath our nose.
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Venetian Blinded
Carpaccio Trattoria: Less Than Meets the Eye
Carpaccio Trattoria: misses that almost overwhelm the hits.
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High-End Hawaiian Pop-Up at Iorio Tonight
Portland-Aloha Fusion: Konbu-cured Opah, blackberry, dill flower, lambs’ leaf lettuce, spring onion vinaigrette Sunday night’s preview of tonight’s pop-up Hawaiian dinner at Iorio (SE 9th and Hawthorne) showcased a remarkably sophisticated menu of Hawaiian cuisine. Consciously absent were the pineapples, luau pig, and taro, and at no point were leis presented by a chubby, grass-skirted […]
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Building a Better Banh Mi
Sok Sab Bai’s Instant Icon
Portland’s only Cambodian food cart does its heritage proud.
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PNH – PDX: Cambodian Cart Lands in Portland
Sok Sab Bai You would do well to order these Cambodian pork belly buns. Sok Sab Bai, located at 1114 SE Clay (between 11th and 12th), purports to be Portland’s only Cambodian food cart. “Introducing authentic and contemporary home style Cambodian comfort food,” their press release reads, before running down a tragic history (the chef […]
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Strip Club Supper Search: Casa Diablo
Clockwise from top left: Menu A; diablo burger, macaroni & cheese, fries, fresh egg rolls, Sex Nachos (my designation). Eternally on a quest to find a strip club where the food is more than a Sysco-fueled hooch sop, I stopped in to try out the all-vegan menu at Casa Diablo (NSFW) (2830 NW St. Helens […]
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Kitchen Confidential
Portland’s Best Kitchens Give Up Their Secrets in Portland, Oregon Chef’s Table
Portland’s best kitchens give up their secrets in Portland, Oregon Chef’s Table.
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Night Of Fifteen Wieners
Before you get excited about a new Morty Fineman film, let me clarify: Zach’s Shack, the beloved and timeless hot dog restaurant on SE Hawthorne, is holding its annual Hot Dog Eating Contest on Sunday, August 26th, at 4pm. Here are some simple facts to put things in context, and also to make clear how […]
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Pop-Up Series Journal: Din Din Supper Club
Spirit of ’77 became an undersea cathedral for a night. Din Din Supper Club, a long-standing and inventive pop-up dinner series, just wrapped their “Fin” menu (all seafood) in the currently-on-break Spirit of ’77 space. The near-monthly dinners, designed by chef Courtney Sproule, are noteworthy for occurring in an unusual assortment of venues—such as outdoor […]